# Burn Notice 8/6: Season Finale!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544 "2009-08-06T17:00:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/41 "2009-08-09T14:08:55Z")
Michael helped her bust a major criminal ring and get Erik Palladino off the streets. I’m sure it got her much fame and glory and being the essential good person that she is (Michael told her several times they’re on the same side) she’s backed off. Plus, I think Moon Bloodgood has a new role in another TV show, and will presumably be too busy to stalk our Michael for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/42 "2009-08-09T16:07:14Z")
DMark, do you mean “I hope she is now included,” instead of “I hope she is not included”? ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/43 "2009-08-09T17:52:36Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > DMark, do you mean “I hope she is now included,” instead of “I hope she is not included”? Yes. That is one of those annoying typos that are not actually typos (it was spelled correctly) but typed too fast and the wrong word showed up. I would like to see her included in the plots…adding the “sweet little old lady” might be fun every once in awhile on one of Micheal’s adventures. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/44 "2009-08-09T19:07:42Z")
She did spy on one guy a couple episodes ago, but I don’t think Michael would ever let her get put in real danger. That character really sold the show for me. I was worried at first that too much time would be spent hiding his life from her until in a very episode Mike said something like “Depending on what she wants, Mom knows everything or nothing about my job.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/45 "2009-08-09T19:48:01Z")
I hate to nitpick here. I love this show. So that’s why I’m going to say It’s Fi. F-I. Short for Fiona. “Fee” really looks off to me. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/46 "2009-08-09T19:53:07Z")
Sorry, I got used to Fee-short-for-Fiona from Colleen McCullough’s _The Thorn Birds_. I doubt I’ll change, considering Fee is pronounced with the long “e” but Fi is to me, pronounced with the long “i” (Jack and the Beanstalk’s giant, Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/47 "2009-08-09T22:30:22Z")
Eh, don’t apologize. It was a nitpick. Now that I’ve ranted, I can overlook it. It’s not that big a deal, but like Monk, I can be a little over-obsessive about small things. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/48 "2009-08-10T00:11:50Z")
No worries. Sigh…January seems so far away. I wish I got into _Mad Men_…might kill some time. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/49 "2009-08-10T05:16:04Z")
“I was the only one who thought you were one of us… now I see that I was right.” Terribly paraphrased, sorry about that. But still a great line…TRM ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/50 "2009-08-10T05:51:54Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I checked while editing the episode today, and Mike shot him with Fi’s favorite H&K with the silver slide. Symbolic, but of course it is now at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico what with the slugs recovered from the body. I bet Fi will be pissed. 🙂 Was it actually covered that Mike disposed of the H&K? Because I haven’t seen it… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/51 "2009-08-10T12:25:03Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Was it actually covered that Mike disposed of the H&K? Because I haven’t seen it… No, it wasn’t. It’s not the sort of thing one would want to keep around, though. I suppose he could plant it on someone, maybe on the boatload of IRA guys. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/52 "2009-08-10T18:30:14Z")
> [@emacknight](#): > > When Michael wakes up, Sam and his mother are there trying to save the brother, there is lots of blood, and they’re trying to stop the bleeding from his upper chest. And for some reason, I couldn’t shake the feeling that Sam was in on it. The entire dialog, with Sam conveniently away, and then shows up after, “sorry Michael, I tried to get here as soon as I could.” How did he even know? I’ve occasionally thought that Sam (or possibly Sam’s girlfriends) would turn out to be the Company informant(s). But I think the brother’s miraculous healing abilities was just sloppy writing. He should have died, to cement Fi’s “I can never go home again” epiphany. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/53 "2009-08-10T19:26:40Z")
Can we talk about driving the car off the top of the garage? How the hell is Sam going to explain that to Miss Reynolds? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/54 "2009-08-10T20:14:09Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Can we talk about driving the car off the top of the garage? How the hell is Sam going to explain that to Miss Reynolds? “I was car jacked. They told me if I went to the police, they would harm you.” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/55 "2009-08-11T20:27:16Z")
**cochrane** said: > [@](#): > > It’s Fi. F-I. Short for Fiona. Thanks. That was bugging me. **fiddlesticks** said: > [@](#): > > Make that “mid-season” finale. Thanks for this awesome entertainment enhancement, USA Network. Cable channels have been mucking with what it means to be a “season”. Now you get a string of six episodes in a row and that’s a “season”. Bugs me to no end. (Note that my beef is not primarily that they only run 6 episodes, then reruns. No, I’m actually bitching about the terminology. It confuses me. What is Season 1? Where does Season 2 begin, and end? Which Season was the Season with the bomb that nearly killed Mike? Is that the end of Season 2 or mid season 2?) **ivylass** said: > [@](#): > > So when does it return? January? I thought they said this fall. **carnivorousplant** said: > [@](#): > > He killed the two guys in the pilot. There was a pilot? Did it ever air? Because I’ve seen snips in the opening credits that I’ve never seen in the show, and the first episode had him talking to his new landlord who was supposedly his first client. But I have never seen it. **mswas** said: > [@](#): > > “I dunno, your accent’s a bit dodgy.” And Sam gave him a look to confirm it. 😉 **lobotomyboy63** said: > [@](#): > > Title: “Fiona-The Client” I’ve noticed they’ve gotten more creative with the titles. At first, it was very basic “The Client”, “Mob boss”, etc. Now they use phrases, “The really whacked out guy you don’t want to mess with”. **emacknight** said: > [@](#): > > I really didn’t like the scene when Fee was about to drive into an ambush, while Michael and Sam were watching over head. Bugged me a little, but I think it was meant to show the normally intelligent and practical (if extreme) Fiona was letting her emotions cloud her judgment. > [@](#): > > But the worst scene for me was the extraction team that bean-bagged Michael, and then put four shots, at close range, into the brother’s chest. > > When Michael wakes up, Sam and his mother are there trying to save the brother, there is lots of blood, and they’re trying to stop the bleeding from his upper chest. [snip] > But then a few hours later, the brother is on the couch, with a bandage around his stomach, a completely bare chest, and acting as if he got punched instead of shot. Yeah, even if Sam is a former Navy SEAL and has experience with battlefield wounds, it’s a bit much to deal with that level of damage and blood loss without surgical gear, extra blood, etc. And the Hollywood recovery. > [@](#): > > The entire dialog, with Sam conveniently away, and then shows up after, “sorry Michael, I tried to get here as soon as I could.” How did he even know? Wasn’t Mike on the phone with him when they bad guys stormed in? > [@](#): > > Oh, I also didn’t like the phone call with the CIA guy, “Michael, I’m scared, come to my apartment, this is the address.” Sounded like a trap. Yes, it did. Too bad for Diego it wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/56 "2009-08-11T20:57:34Z")
The only reason the second season is weird is the writers’ strike. I think. > [@Irishman](#): > > There was a pilot? Did it ever air? Because I’ve seen snips in the opening credits that I’ve never seen in the show, and the first episode had him talking to his new landlord who was supposedly his first client. But I have never seen it. Yes, it aired, and if you buy the first season (or maybe get it on Netflix) you can watch it. It starts off with him in Africa. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/57 "2009-08-12T20:06:01Z")
I’ve seen that happen with lots of cable shows. Look at Monk and Psyche. Look at Battlestar Galactica, for Pete’s sake (whoever Pete is). Look at The Sopranos. It’s not like Networks were particularly better at running season’s uninterrupted. The standard network “season” starts in September (or October) and runs through November, then takes December as a holiday break, comes back in late Jan and Feb, then sweeps in Mar hit. Then they run the final episodes into May. 24 made it part of their advertising the last couple years to run the season uninterrupted starting in Jan and running till May/June. That was a significant thing because most shows don’t run uninterrupted seasons. But running 6 episodes and then a “season finale” bugs me to death. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544/58 "2009-08-12T20:20:35Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Look at Battlestar Galactica, for Pete’s sake (whoever Pete is). I don’t remember a Pete, but I’ll wager he was discovered to be a Cylon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burn-notice-8-6-season-finale/505544.md?page=2)